Display apparatus.



J. H. WAGGETT.

Patented Mar. 16, 1909. 2 SHEETS-4111131 1.

J. H. WAGGETT. DISPLAY APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1908. 91 5,392.

Patented Mar. 16,1909.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

JIIIHHIHIHHIHII all awe/1 1 JOHN HENRY WAGGETT, OF LA SALLE, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 16, 1909.

Application filed July 6, 1968. Serial No. 442,121.

I '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. Wneenrr, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at La Salle, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful iinprovements in Display Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has to do with the display of lace curtains and analogous articles to pro speetive purchasers; and it has for its object to provide an apparatus embodying such a construction that lace curtains and similar articles may be incased and protected. against dust and dirt and may be expeditiously and easily drawn out of the case and displayed to advantage and as readily put back into the case subsequent to the showing thereof.

lV'ith the foregoing in mind the nature ol" the invention and its novelty, utility and practical advantages will be fully under stood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, ccoinpanying and form ing part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention of which I am cognizant. Fig. 2 is a vertical s ition illustrating the manner in which a series of lace curtai s is drawn out of the wase ol the apparatus and displayed to advantage. Fig. 3 is an elevation illustrating the upper portion of the case comprised in my improvements and also illustrating the door of the case in a closed position. Fig. 4 is an enlarged, detail plan of one of the bolts which carry pulleys and serve for the connection oi the outer ends of the rods or wires of the apparatus. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of said bolt.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

A is a wall of an apartment, and B is the case comprised in my novel apparatus. The said case B comprises a body having door opening a and also having seven (more or less) openings h arranged in horizontal series above the opening a, and a hinged. or other suitable door 0 arranged in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 to close the opening a.

(l is a rod arranged. in the same horizontal plane as the opening I) of case B and connected through brackets D with the wall A and the ceiling of the apartment.

E E are seven (more or less) threaded bolts extending transversely through the rod (l and each equipped with a nut a, a pulley l) and a pin (1.

G G are seven (more or less) rods or taut wires extending between and connected to eyes d on the back wall of the case B and the pins 0 in bolts ll), and. also extending through the openings 7) in the front wall of the case.

H H are seven (more or less) pulley blocks connected to the back wall ol case B and arranged above the eyes (1 and rods (l.

l l are seven (more or less) pulley blocl's connected to the back wall of case ll and arranged below the eyes (5 and rods U.

l is a roller ol which there is one arranged below and adjacent to each rod U.

l is a lower roller of which there is one arranged below each roller 1 J J are seven (more or less) cables, and K K are curtains to be displayed. The pulleys l), the pulley blocks H, the pulley blocks 1, rollers l and rollers 1 serve as guides for the cables J, and. I would here have it distinctly understood that guides of other descripdions may be employed without involving departure from the scope of my invention as delined in the claims appended.

By reason of the arrangement of the pulley blocks ii and 1, relative to the rods lrr, it will be observed that each cable J has a portion disposed above one of the rods G and also has portions disposed below said rod.

My invention (5011l7111]')lltt8 the arrangement oi a plurality of lace curtains on each of the rods G alter the manner shown in Fig. 2 the curtains being connected with the rods G through the medium of circular or other suitable hooks which straddle the rods and engage the curtains, and. the curtains being connected together through the medium oi' interposed cords M as clearly shown. in said figure. My invention also contemplates the employment of a cable J in combination with each rod G; the said cable being connected at one end to the forward portion of the foremost curtain on the rod, and being side of the roller 1 then around the sheave in the pulley hloca 1. below the mentioned block ii, and. then back through the said opening 5, and being connected at its opposite end to the forward portion ol the l'oremost curtain oi the series on the rod. It will he noted in this connection that each pair of rollers I and l is arrz'inged parallel to and in the same vertical plane as one ol' the rods G.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will he observed that the portions of the cables J between the rollers l and l are within convenient reach (ii a person standing upon the floor ol' the apartment and adjacent to the case B; and it will also be observed that when the curtains are within the case B and a salesman desires to display a series of the curtains to a prospective purchaser, it is simply necessary tor the salesman. to move the portion ol' the cable marked a; downvz d, when the curtains will be drawn one after the other out 01' the case B and along the rod G with which the curtains are connected, while when the salesman desires to replace the curtains in the case B so as to prevent the same from interfering with the exhibition of curtains on another rod G, the salesman has but to move the portion marked 2 of the cable downward when the curtains will he drawn hacl; into the case. It will further be observed that by virtue of the ends of the cable J being connected to the iorward portion of the loremost curtain ol' a series, the return of the curtains to the case will he attended hv bundling of the curtains that is to say, the forward portion of the l'oremost curtain will first he moved backward with the result that all of the curtains oi the series will be returned to the case B in a compact mass. This latter is advantageous inasmuch as it makes it unnecessary to employ a case ol large capacity to receive the curtains and protect the same against dust and dirt. illter all of the curtains are returned to the case B, the door of the or so is closed, when, as will. he readilv understood, the liability al the curtains being deteriorated bv the deposit of dust or dirt thereon is reduced to a minimum.

It will he gathered from the foregoing that my novel apparatus is simple and inexpensive in construction and is adapted to he expeditiously and easily installed in a storeroom or other apartment; and it will also he gathered that hut little e'l'l'ort is required to operate the apparatus, and that the apparatus renders it feasible to incase the curtains and to quickly and easily dlsplay the same to a prospective purchaser.

As helore stated the construction herein illustrated and descriiiod constiti'ites the host practi al emhodiment of myii'ivention known to me, hut I would have it understood that in the Future practice of the invention such changes in the form, construction, and relative arrangement of parts may he made as fairly lall within the scope of my invention as defined in the claims appended.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure hv Letters-Patent, is:

1. In an apparatus for the purpose descrihed, the comhination of a case having a door opening and a door for controlling said opening and also having a series of comparm tivel v small openings arranged ahove and. communicating with the door opening, rods extending through the comparatively small openings and into the case and supported by the case, a suitably supported rod connected to the opposite ends of the first mentioned rods and disposed at an angle thereto, guides carried l v said angularly disposed rod, upper series 01' guides located in the case, a lower of guides also located in the case, means movahle on the rods and adapted to connect lace curtains or analogous articles therewith, and cal les having depending loops disposed in the case and receiving the lower guides therein; the said cahles being passed around the upper guides and through the comparatively small openings of the case and lacing also passed around the guides on the angularlv disposed rod and arranged when moved in one direction to draw the lace cur tains or other articles out of the case and when moved in the opposite direction to put the lace curtains or other articles hack into the case.

2. in an apparatus for the purpose descrihed, the comi ination oi a case having a door opening and a door for controlling said opening an d. also having a series of comparatively small openings arranged ahove and communion.ting with the door opening, rods extending through the comparatively small openings and into the case and supported hy the case, a suitahly supported rod connected to the opposite ends of the iirst mentioned rods and disposed at an angle thereto, guides carried lay said angularly disposed rod, guides located in the case, means inovahle on the rods and adapted to connect lace curtains or analogous articles tl'ierewith, and cahles passed around the guides and through. the comparatively small openings of the case and. arranged when moved in one direction to draw the lace curtains or other articles out of the case and when moved in the opposite direction to put the lace curtains or other articlcs hack into the case.

3. In an apparatus for the purpose described, the cornhination of a rod, a holt con and a cross-pin, a red one end of which is nesses. supported by the seld cross-p111 ot the bolt,

nected with the rod and carrying a pulley r my hand in presence of two subscribing Witand a cable passed around the pulley of the JOHN HENRY TWAGGETT' 5 bolt and adapted to he used in moving ar- Witnesses:

ticles on the second named rod. ADOLPH HAAs,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set JOHN J. LUOEY. 

